Stephen Bayliss's Blog

"Arse" is the commonly used term for ones bottom in the UK.

Today the gods were smiling on me, I went for a run and the rain came down, very localised but onto my head, just for a bit:)

Above is the birthday party at our local restaraunt, the food was fabulous as always, the cake was great too.  Azmil is about to blow out his candles.  I have already blown out mine, so as I can get stuck into the cake:)  Thank you for the cake and coming to the party:)

Thank you Hiro for the photos.

Getting a lift to the supermarket, no need for air conditioning in this vehicle, but eye wear is recommended.

Errrrrrmmm, me with the shopping!

Oh yes, this blog just gets better and better;) On the way back to base from the supermarket, this time in the car type taxi!

Arriving into Singapore, lots of big buildings and lots of new big buildings being built.

I had uploaded lots more pictures but something seems to of happened to them.

Next blog the new P4!!

It’s not that we don’t have TV here in Krabi, we actually have BBC World, A football channel and 2 movie channels, so plenty of entertainment, but we also have a great internet connection in our rooms so lots of you tube clips to watch:) I have just been flicking though Family Guy clips, very funny. I will have a look for South Park clips next, that’s my favourite show:)

The boss has found us a great location here, just on the outskirts of town and very close to the 50m outdoor pool (they must have at least 10x as many 50m pools here in Thailand as the UK, it’s incredible!) and the tartan track. Great quiet roads. Ah yes and a great restaraunt at the hotel, lovely food and crazy cheap!

One of the great things about our Team TBB (and I suppose about doing triathlon generally) is we mix with so many different people from different countries and cultures, just yesterday we were running at the track and there was me the English man, Hiro the Japanese man, Brandon the American, Caroline the Swiss girl, Rebecca the Australian girl and a young Thai lad from the local club all running together. Not speaking much but just running and mixing.  It’s a shame the leaders of some of the countries of the world that are at war can’t go out and have a run together and just enjoy the world with each other, we can only hope!!

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The snow is a long way away right now.  Next picture will be a bit different:)

I wanted to put a picture on my blog.  I have been putting a picture on most blogs and it feels like not a complete blog without the compulsory picture however the internet connection here at the pool doesn’t seem to like attaching pictures so I have given up.  I have tried to put pictures of huskeys, of Bella and I cycling and running, of beautiful pictures of the mountains, but I am afraid you will all have to just use your imagination.

Our Leysin winter training camp is coming to a close and we will soon be in Krabi, Thailand.  I am looking forward to getting to the heat and the different but equally beautiful surroundings of Thailand.  I think this wil be our 5th time training in Thailand.  We visited Krabi a couple of times on some rides the last time we were there and also a few car trips to go to the supermarket so we have a vague recollection of the place.

Training here in Leysin has been great and we will miss it until we return in the summer:)

Leysin pool looking inviting.

We have had a massive dump of snow overnight, so the skiers are very happy.

Running up at the top of Leysin in the morning. This is before the big dump of snow.

If anybody is wondering how come my legs are looking so enormous, it is just because I have 2 pairs of tights on:)

Bella chasing me.

What is it with computers? Why can I not just buy a computer and use it without it asking me 10 times a day if I want to update this and update that. Surely these things should work without having to be updated every bloody day. Also, when I used to press “ok” when asked to update, half the time it would end up messing up my computer. Usually this is Windows asking me to update all these things, there must be some conspiracy to all this.

At this very moment it is asking me if I want a “Java”!!! That’s the other thing you see, none of what it asks you makes any sense to me either. Can’t it use normnal english? I guess not as it doesn’t really need anything new, what it should say is “do you want to install some load of nothing that won’t make a blind bit of difference and might actually mess up your computer”

I no longer press “ok” so I have 100 updates pending, I fully expext my laptop to explode with frustration some time soon.

Bella has a little laptop with Linux on it, now linux is a free thing on her laptop instead of buying windows, and it works and doesn’t ask to be updated every 2 seconds. However it also doesn’t seem to be compatible with some other programmes so it is not perfect either.

I’m sure it is just so we have to keep buying stuff, but it would be nice to just have a computer with all the programmes one needs and be able to use them without all these updates all the time.

Anyway I am presently sitting on our sofa, where I spend alot of my time:), sipping a beer and enjoying the view of the snowy mountains, whilst watching “the loose women” on ITV. I would post a picture but we left our camera at my parents and so it is in the mail on it’s way here.

Yes we are now back to our place in Leysin. We arrived late on Monday and it is such a magical feeling driving into the mountains with all the lights of the towns and the stars in the sky.  Then in the morning it was a beautiful clear day and white snow everywhere, it’s such a pleasure to wake up to see the views.

On our way driving down to Croydon from Scotland I was singing “Homeward bound”  I was very excited to get back to Croydon.

Below you can see what I was so excited about. 

I have been showing Bella all the sights and she has been faining interest very well:)

Crystal Palace FC are doing very well they are in with a chance of promotion to the Premiership and are still in the FA cup.  The glory days may be coming back.

Below are a couple more pictures for those that can’t get enough of Croydon.

Here is a video I made of me interviewing my wife Bella at her parents house in Scotland.  I ask her all manner of fascinating questions and she answers with equally fascinating answers:)  Click on the above to enjoy:)